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by layer8 34 days ago
A car is still a faster horse in the sense that you decide where to go with it. It doesn’t outsource decisions to somewhere else.

(Arguably the car affords you better control than an unruly horse. Self-driving cars are moving us closer to the horse again. ;))
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fuzzfactor 33 days ago
>Self-driving cars are moving us closer to the horse again.

Maybe there is some parallel to the way that AI is moving "cutting edge" programming closer to the mainframe/dumb-terminal paradigm.

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joseda-hg 33 days ago
A good horse is quite the autopilot

I've seen a horse get a black out drunk rider "safely" to a hammock and then continue to it's stable to rest

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